Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated UFC light-weight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov following his dominant victory over interim champion Dustin Poirier at UFC 242 in Abu Dhabi.
Putin, who’s on a enterprise journey to Dagestan, met with Khabib and his father in Makhachkala and praised him for his dominant efficiency and spectacular preventing approach.
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“I wish to congratulate you. It was a good struggle in opposition to a robust and tenacious rival,” Putin instructed Khabib.
“Sure, the opponent was robust and respectable. This time round I fought in opposition to an individual who revered me,” replied Khabib, making reference to final yr’s bad-tempered conflict with Conor McGregor in Las Vegas.
“Properly it depends upon the particular person,” Putin went on to say. “However in fact knowledgeable athlete ought to be like this. You had a convincing victory. I watched the struggle, you submitted him with a rear-naked choke, it was a basic choke maintain. You probably did it within the right means, with out squeezing his throat, however holding him on each side of the neck, correctly. It was all truthful,” the Russian president added.
Nurmagomedov instructed Putin that his father had helped him all through all the struggle, giving him directions on which ways to make use of in opposition to Poirier.
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“I let his punch get by means of within the second spherical… then I heard my father’s indignant voice inform me ‘get again to wrestling’,” Khabib recalled.
Nurmagomedov additionally confused that he felt some stress due to the gang’s overwhelming help, however managed to calm down after coming into the octagon.
